Get ready to throw out the rulebook — this is life drawing turned upside down.

HOTMESS: In The Flesh is a visually explosive, emotionally charged, and wildly original experience where art, performance, and imagination collide. Step into a surreal world of costume, sound, lighting and narrative, designed to ignite your creative fire and pull you out of the everyday.

Created by multidisciplinary artists Sophie May and Gabrielle Miller, HOTMESS is part immersive theatre, part life drawing, and part artistic liberation. Each show is a unique, curated journey exploring cheeky, conceptual themes that invite you to draw, feel, laugh, and escape.

Event Details

Date: Saturday 25 October, 2025
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm (Drawing starts at 6:30 PM sharp — please arrive by 6:00 PM)
Location: Aboriginal Art Co, 89 Grey Street, South Brisbane
Ages: Adults 18+ only

Meet the Artists

Sophie May is a Gamilaraay artist living and creating on Bundjalung Country. Her practice spans ceramic sculpture, mixed media painting, and the delivery of expressive art workshops for both children and adults. Sophie is deeply inspired by her cultural heritage and believes in using visual art as a powerful tool for self-expression and connection.

Gabrielle Miller is a director and performer bringing playful ingenuity to the stage and screen through music, dance, acting, puppetry, and mask work. A chimerical storyteller with a far-reaching practice, Gabrielle trained at the Atelier für Physisches Theater in Berlin and has toured her self-devised performances around the world.

HOTMESS was born in the wake of the Northern NSW floods, created as an artistic escape from the grief, hardship and exhaustion so many were feeling. It became a portal into something magical — a place to be messy, expressive, and free.

What’s Included:

• Live costumed performers and surreal storytelling
• Guided immersive life drawing experience
• Music, lighting, and scenography to stir the senses
• A juicy mix of humour, heart, and creative heat
• All skill levels welcome
• Clipboard, Paper and drawing materials all supplied

Bookings

Spaces are limited for this immersive performative life drawing event — don’t miss your chance to be part of the creative energy!

Book early to secure your seat and fully immerse yourself in the experience.

Click here for tickets!

Presented by Aboriginal Art Co

Aboriginal Art Co is proudly supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland, the Australian Government through Indigenous Visual Arts Industry Support (IVAIS), and philanthropic partners including the Tim Fairfax Family Foundation and Creative Partnerships Australia via the Australian Cultural Fund (ACF).